1. 10th Grade English Curriculum
Peace
What is the paradox within?

2. Unit 1: How Does Literature Reflect Aspects of the Human Condition?
Enduring Understandings:
Literature is the result or documentation of real events and life.
The human condition involves the attitudes, experiences, and behaviors of being human.
People can understand aspects of the human condition through literature.
Literature is a form of expression.
Personal experience and point of view influence how a story is told.

3. Unit 1 Texts Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
Two Kinds, a short story by Amy Tan
Initiation by Sylvia Plath
By Any Other Name, a short story by Santa Rama Rau
The Road Not Taken, a poem by Robert Frost

4. Unit 1 Assessments Summer Reading Project.
Short, fiction story based on a real life experience that reflects a human condition.
Night/Great Expectations objective test.
Point of view project.
Survival Story.
Genocide Research Project.

5. Unit 2: Should the Needs of the Group Outweigh the Needs of the Individual?
Enduring Understandings:
The difference between needs and wants.
The differences in a person’s responsibility to his/her self, a group, and larger society.
When it is appropriate to put one’s self before others.
The struggle to put oneself or the group first plays out in one’s conscience and value system.
External norms and expectations play a role.

6. Unit 2 Texts Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare
The Interlopers, a short story by Saki
The Boar Hunt, a short story by Jose Vasconcelos
The Kite Runner, a by Khaled Hosseini

7. Unit 2 Assessments Critical Lens Essay. Grammar Exam.
Speech Writing and Presentation.
Research Project.

8. Unit 3: Is Technology a Blessing or a Curse?
Enduring Understandings:
Technology has enabled people to live longer and fuller lives.
Technology has allowed travel to other parts of the world and universe.
Technology has enhanced quality and speed of communication.
Technology has mechanized some jobs, created new jobs, but has made others obsolete.
Technology creates new norms and expectations.
Language evolves/adapts to reflect changes to technology.

9. Unit 3 Texts
The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde, a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
1984, by George Orwell
The World is Too Much With Us, a poem by William Wordsworth
Animal, a poem/song by Ani Difranco
When I heard the learn’d astronomer, a poem by Walt Whitman

10. Unit 3 Assessments Research paper.
Jekyll and Hyde/1984 objective test.

11. Unit 4: What Is Justice? Enduring Understandings:
Revenge and justice are not synonymous.
Different cultures define justice in different ways.
Emotions can alter one’s view of justice and one’s definition of justice.
Justice is not always the consequence of a criminal act.
Justice is that which benefits society.

12. Unit 5 Texts Twelve Angry Men, a drama by Reginald Rose
Antigone, a Greek drama by Sophocles
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr.
Liberty Needs Glasses, a poem by Tupac Shakur

13. Unit 5 Assessments Critical Lens Essay on Twelve Angry Men.
Summative grammar test.
Objective test on Antigone.
Antigone dramtatic interpretations.

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